What are the ancestors of Europeans?

the three major ethnic groups in ethnic Europe

1) Germanic:

In the impression of some Chinese people, when it comes to Germanic people, it seems that they only refer to Germans. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding!

A In the late Roman Empire, Germanic people had formed several branches, such as Dongggoth, Visigoth, Frankish, Burgundy, Vandal, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, etc. (of course, there were some small branches).

B Lombardi, the main body of the East Goths, later merged with the Romans to become a modern northern Italian; Visigoths constitute an important source of Spanish and Portuguese today; French people and Belgian Walloons (speaking French) are the result of the integration of some Franks and Celts (that is, Gauls); Another part of Franks and most Saxons are the ancestors of Germans, Austrians, most Swiss, Dutch and Flemish (Dutch-speaking) in Belgium. Angles, a Saxon (that is, Saxons) and Jutes arrived in England; One part of the Normans is naturally the ancestors of all nationalities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland today, while others have merged into the English, French (northern), Irish and Eastern Slavs.

C as for the Vandals, have you heard of Vandalism? King of destruction among Germans! Under the wave of the so-called barbarians invading the Roman Empire, they invaded Carthage, North Africa, and founded the country through Spain. Later, in the 192s, they crossed the sea northward to capture Rome, the city of ten thousand cities, and burned it almost to the ground, which was much more famous than that of Xiang Yu in China at the end of Qin Dynasty, hence the name Vandalism. About a century later, Justinian of the Eastern Roman Empire sent troops to North Africa and destroyed the Kingdom of Vandal. Since then, the Vandals have disappeared without a trace, and they are generally considered to have assimilated into the local aborigines and later Arabs (the Vandals are always * * * only four or five hundred thousand people). So, can you insist that Zidane, a former world footballer of the year, has no Vandals in him?

In a word, the Vandals are the worst in history among the glorious Germans, and they are not constructive at all.

Of course, the relationship between the Germans and some ethnic groups in Europe today is discussed in a very general level. The actual evolution process is obviously more complicated than this, so the blood will be more mixed. However, what is certain is that, in comparison, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Dutch, English and Germans are definitely the purest descendants of Germans. For example, after the fall of the Roman Empire, England was invaded many times by foreign enemies until 166 AD, but all of them were Germans: first, Anglo-Saxons and Jutes, then Vikings, Danes and Normans respectively (the latter three were actually collectively called Normans and belonged to the northern branch of the Germans). The native Celts and ancient Britons were deported to the north and the west, respectively, forming the Scots and Welsh today (Catherine Zeta-Jones is the Welsh).

it goes without saying that the Germans are excellent. Its outstanding racial temperament, such as liberalism and individualism, contract concept and brave and adventurous spirit, together with great Christian belief and precious heritage of ancient Greece and Rome, have determined from the beginning that western civilization will surely prevail in the world in the future.

2) Slavs:

Slavs are divided into the following three branches:

A Slavs-there are Poles, Czechs and Slovaks.

The important members of the Latin Catholic civilization circle are all Central European countries (historically, religiously, culturally and geographically, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary have always belonged to the Western civilization circle, but not to Eastern Europe, so it was a misunderstanding to classify them into Eastern Europe, which was completely the product of the Cold War). Poles and Czechs were deeply influenced by Germanic Germans, especially Czechs, who were ruled by Austria for a long time. The Slovaks were heavily Madzar, that is, Hungarian. Czechs are rational and moderate. Because of Germanization and more individualistic traditions, the Hus movement is a symbol, and she is also the first capitalist nation among Slavs. Poles have religious enthusiasm and scientific talent.

B Yugoslavs-Bulgarians (the integration of the Bulgarians and Slavs of the Turkic family), Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Croats, Slovenes and BiH. The area inhabited by Slavs in the south is usually called "Balkan" (the word comes from Turkish). From 15th to 19th century, Turks controlled most of the Balkan (except Croatia and Slovenia), which had disastrous consequences. Croats and Slovenes are lucky. They have been ruled by Austria in the past, which is a little Germanic. Members of the Latin Catholic civilization circle, like the Western Slavs, belong to the narrow sense of Western civilization circle (that is, excluding the Orthodox countries). Generally speaking, only Bosnian people believe in Islam, which is the crystallization of Turks for hundreds of years. Among southern Slavs, Croats and Slovenes have the highest overall development level, which is equivalent to that of Western Slavs. If they were not ruled by Stalin system for decades, they would never be worse than the current 15 EU countries. In fact, once the one-sided GDP output value is put aside, the five countries will be ahead of the two poor countries in the European Union-Greece and Portugal in terms of comprehensive quality.